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N.M. School for the Deaf: Police charge student with rape
Court documents say alleged assault occurred in school's bathroom
State police arrested a student at the New Mexico School for the Deaf who they say raped a 15-year-old student on campus Wednesday after dragging her into a bathroom.
Jorge Chavez, 19, a resident of Hatch, was charged Thursday with two counts of criminal sexual penetration, criminal sexual contact and false imprisonment.
The girl told police through an interpreter that she was entering the school's medical building when Chavez approached her, grabbed her by the arm and forced her into the bathroom in the boys' ward of the medical building about 11 a.m. Wednesday, according to a statement of probable cause filed Thursday in Santa Fe County Magistrate Court.
Chavez pulled down the girl's pants and raped her, the statement says. The girl said she kept telling him ``no,'' but he continued to assault her, the statement says.
Chavez told police the sex was consensual, but also said she had told him no, the statement says. He said he proceeded to have sex with her anyway because he was ``selfish,'' the statement said. He told police he felt bad shortly after the incident, the statement says.
Chavez is being held in the county jail in lieu of a $100,000 cash or property bond.
School officials refused to comment. Through his secretary, Ron Stern, the superintendent, said he could not comment because the case was under investigation.
The School for the Deaf, which is run by the state, was founded in 1885. It serves students aged 2 to 22 with hearing disorders from throughout New Mexico.
Most students who attend the school live in dorms on the property.
A lawsuit filed last year accused the school of placing a 17-year-old male student with a history of sexual misconduct in a room with three other boys whom he allegedly molested in 2003.
The victims were 13 and 14, according to the lawsuit, which was filed on behalf of the boys and their parents, claimed school administrators did not properly inform parents of the incidents and the school failed to isolate the 17-year-old from other students.
The school recently settled the lawsuit out of court.
Court documents say alleged assault occurred in school's bathroom
State police arrested a student at the New Mexico School for the Deaf who they say raped a 15-year-old student on campus Wednesday after dragging her into a bathroom.
Jorge Chavez, 19, a resident of Hatch, was charged Thursday with two counts of criminal sexual penetration, criminal sexual contact and false imprisonment.
The girl told police through an interpreter that she was entering the school's medical building when Chavez approached her, grabbed her by the arm and forced her into the bathroom in the boys' ward of the medical building about 11 a.m. Wednesday, according to a statement of probable cause filed Thursday in Santa Fe County Magistrate Court.
Chavez pulled down the girl's pants and raped her, the statement says. The girl said she kept telling him ``no,'' but he continued to assault her, the statement says.
Chavez told police the sex was consensual, but also said she had told him no, the statement says. He said he proceeded to have sex with her anyway because he was ``selfish,'' the statement said. He told police he felt bad shortly after the incident, the statement says.
Chavez is being held in the county jail in lieu of a $100,000 cash or property bond.
School officials refused to comment. Through his secretary, Ron Stern, the superintendent, said he could not comment because the case was under investigation.
The School for the Deaf, which is run by the state, was founded in 1885. It serves students aged 2 to 22 with hearing disorders from throughout New Mexico.
Most students who attend the school live in dorms on the property.
A lawsuit filed last year accused the school of placing a 17-year-old male student with a history of sexual misconduct in a room with three other boys whom he allegedly molested in 2003.
The victims were 13 and 14, according to the lawsuit, which was filed on behalf of the boys and their parents, claimed school administrators did not properly inform parents of the incidents and the school failed to isolate the 17-year-old from other students.
The school recently settled the lawsuit out of court.